Two-loop scattering amplitude for heavy-quark pair production through light-quark annihilation in QCD

Abstract We present the first full analytic evaluation of the scattering amplitude for the process qq → Q Q ¯ $$ Q\overline{Q} $$ up-to two loops in Quantum Chromodynamics, for a massless (q) and a massive (Q) quark flavour. The interference terms of the one- and two-loop amplitudes with the Born am...

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Main Authors: Manoj K. Mandal, Pierpaolo Mastrolia, Jonathan Ronca, William J. Torres Bobadilla
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2022-09-01
Series:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2022)129